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S. G. RUGLAND.

TAILORS PRESS PAD. No. 325,277. Patented Sept. 1, 1885.

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S. 0. RUGLAND.

TAILORS PRESS PAD.

No. 325,277. I Patented Sept. 1, 1885.

WlTNEEEEIE INVENTDF. 77777/m% UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo SAMUEL C. RUGLAND, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

TAILORS PRESS-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part: of Letters Patent No. 325,277, dated September 1, 1885.

Application filed October 22, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL G. RUGLAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented a certain new and useful Tailors Press Pad for Pantalocus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved presspad for the use of tailors in pressing out and giving form and set to the bottom of pantaloon-legs; and the object of my improvements is to provide a press-pad capable of lateral extension and contraction, and one which will at all times present a smooth and even external surface. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a plan View of my improved press-pad. Fig. 2 is an end view of the inner end of the press-pad. Fig. 3 is a face view of the outer end of the press-pad. Fig. 4 is a face view of the outer end of the press-pad, partially broken away, and showing the thumbwheel removed. Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view. Figs. 6 and 7 are detail views. Fig. 8 is a plan view showing the interior of the upper half or face of the press-pad. Fig. 9 is a plan view showing the lower half of thepresspad.

Similar letters of reference are used to designate like parts throughout the several figures.

My present invention consists of an improvement upon the device for which Letters Patent of the United States were granted to me on the 16th day of September, 1884, No. 305,112, for an improved press-pad for pantalocus, and it relates more particularly to certain details of construction, whereby the pad is made extensible and the cloth covering drawn taut, as will be more fully explained hereinafter.

My improved press-pad consists of four pieces of sheet metal, A, B, O, and D, bent into the form shown in the drawings, the up per and. lower sections moving upon each other, and the front and rear sections being capable of being advanced toward or retracted from each other, as the requirements of the case may demand. The rear or outer sections, A and B, are connected together near either end of their rear edge by means of the metal tongues E and F and screws or rivets G, which rivets G also pass through a division plate or rib, to be hereinafter more fully described. The front or inner sections, 0 and D, are connected together at their ends by the plates H and I, which form the hearing or journal plates for the operating shafts.

In order to hold the front edges of the outer sections down snugly upon the outer faces of the inner sections, I provide the said inner sections with a series of transverse slots, J J, through which pass pins K K, riveted in the outer sections, and all connected together on each inner face of the inside sections by a strip of strap-iron, L, which prevents the withdrawal of the said pins or rivets K K from their slots and hold each upper and lower section of the pad closely in position.

Near each end of the front or inner sections, 0 and D, and upon the inside horizontal faces thereof, I attach the flanged guides M M, within which are reciprocatedmthe flat bars or plates N N, provided upon their faces with the toothed racks O O, and firmly attached at their outer ends by solder, to the rear or outer sections, A B, while their inner ends are left perfectly free and loose.

P is the main operating-shaft, and is journaled in the end plates, H and I, and is provided upon the inner side of its bearings with cog-wheels Q Q, which mesh with the intermediate cogs or pinions, R, mounted upon a shaft, S, which also has its end bearings in the end plates, H and I. The pinions R mesh with the racks on the upper outer plate, A, while the cogs or pinions Q mesh with the racks on the lower outer plate, B, as clearly shown in Fig. 5. One end of the main shaft P is provided with a ratchet-wheel, T, and pawl T, controlled by a spring, U, for the purpose of holding the inner or front and outer or rear sections or plates in any set position, and this shaft is also provided with a thumbwheel, V, for conveniently rotating the said shaft.

Extending parallel. with the shaft P, I journal in the end plates of the press-pad the two shafts V and X, provided with a cog-wheel, \V and X, which mesh with the racks O O, as shown in Figs. 8 and 9. Upon each of these two last named shafts I key the windingdrumsY, of which any desirable number may be used, and upon them are wound the tapes Z, attached to the cloth covering of the presspad. The said cloth covering A is attached to the front meetingedge of the inner or front sections, 0 and D, and lays flat over the outer surface of the press-pad, and may be stitched to the ends of said section, if so desired. Both pieces of cloth are then doubled or folded over the outer edges of the outer or rear sections and passed through the space left between the said sections and the metal fastening-tongues E and F and carried into the body of the pad, as shown in Fig. 5 The loose ends of these cloths are braced by being stitched to a wire rod, G, and are then attached by the tapes to the winding-drums. The dividing plate or rib, one end of which is shown in perspective in Fig. 7, consists of two plates of metal, H and I, joined together in such a manner asto form a T when viewed in crosssection. The plate which forms the top of the T is pierced at each end with a hole for the passage of the screws G, and is also provided with a lug or washer upon its inner face, which washer J is used to hold out the top of theT from the rear edge of the outer sections, A and B, so as to permit of the free passage of the cloth covering, and at the same time to fill out the concave space left between the up per andlower section and p resent a full smooth, and even surface for the cloth of the pantaicons to rest against and prevent the creasing of the same. The plate 1 extends for a short distance within the body of the press-pad and serves as a strengthening-rib to the plate H, and also as a dividing-strip between the two pieces of cloth.

The manner of operating my improved press-pad will be as follows, to wit: The pantaloons having been brought into a proper conduce or cause the unwinding of the tapes and the slackening of the cloth covering, which unwinding and slackening keeps pace with or progresses at the same rate of speed at which the sections of the presspad are forced apart, and thus the cloth covering is caused to lie flat and smooth upon the metal surface of the pad, and without any wrinkles to obstruct the action of the smoothing-iron, or to crease the cloth during the process of pressing.

From the above it will be seen that I am enabled to produce a cheap and durable presspad for tailors use, and one which is extremely simple in its construction and easy of operation, and in which the unwinding of the tapes of the covering-cloth is accomplished at the same time and by direct contact with the mechanism by which the extension or contrac tion of the pad is accomplished; and also to close up the entrance or passage-way for the cloth covering into the body of the press-pad in such a manner that asmooth and even rear edge of the pad will be presented to the cloth of the pantaloons, and creasing will be pre vented.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In an extensible cloth-covered press-pad for tailors use, the combination, with the adjustable sections A, B, O, and D, of the metal fastening-tongues E F, division-plate H, and screws G, substantially as described.

2. In a tailors press-pad, the combination of the sections A, B, O, and D, the end plates,

H I, bars N N, having racks O O, the shafts 

